Sector Gopher

Sector Gopher was a sector of the Artois front on the Western Front of World War I which saw heavy fighting during the campaigns of spring 1918.

Three US Army regiments (the 234th, 272nd, and 287th), a French Army chasseur battalion and tirailleur battalion, two US Marine Corps companies, and the 2nd Battalion of the British Army's Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers faced off against five Imperial German Army regiments and three battalions, including four Landwehr regiments, a regular infantry regiment, a reserve jaeger battalion, and two "storm battalions" amid a vast number of trenches; the central trench changed hands twice, with neither side making any territorial gains. After heavy fighting, both sides withdrew, having failed to score a decisive victory over the other or acquire any territory.